Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei refined Heart Anomaly source to gradually strengthen his spiritual perception, then traveled to the imperial capital in disguise. After arriving, he heard people discussing the Spirit Tide and True Lord Tianyang and paid an inn waiter to explain.

• Chen Fei tested whether spiritual herbs and pills could interact with Heart Anomaly source, but nothing could touch it, so he absorbed the source himself.
• Chen Fei’s spiritual perception began improving over several days, and he decided to wait before entering the Heart Anomaly Realm again because a third-rank Heart Anomaly might attack him.
• Chen Fei traveled toward the imperial capital, concealing his cultivation and changing his appearance before entering the heavily fortified city.
• Chen Fei checked into an inn and heard people discussing the Spirit Tide and True Lord Tianyang.
• Chen Fei offered the waiter twenty taels of silver and asked him to explain the Spirit Tide and True Lord Tianyang.

Chen Fei learned about the Spirit Tide and True Lord Tianyang’s search for a final disciple, then practiced his sword techniques and began selling Spirit Artifacts in the Imperial City. As Chen Fei prepared to sell his Zhenyuan Mirror, Yan Zigu was captured outside the city by a mysterious figure who claimed to be taking him to True Lord Tianyang.

• A waiter told Chen Fei that the Spirit Tide was expected in about twenty days and that True Lord Tianyang was accepting a final disciple.
• Chen Fei decided to wait for the Spirit Tide, practiced the Starry Night Sword while cultivating insights into the Water Jade Sword and Sword Eye, and planned to advance the Water Jade Sword to Great Perfection.
• Chen Fei sold three Low-grade Spirit Swords and one Mid-grade Spirit Sword at Jade Treasure Pavilion, choosing not to buy the Low-grade Spirit Bow on display.
• Outside the Imperial City, Yan Zigu fled after his master and fellow disciples died, but a mysterious figure caught his sword and said he would take Yan Zigu to True Lord Tianyang.
• Chen Fei left a second shop after selling his remaining Low-grade and Mid-grade Spirit Swords and headed to find a third shop to sell his Zhenyuan Mirror.

Chen Fei consigned the Zhenyuan Mirror at Thousand Treasures Pavilion and learned that it would take three to ten days to sell. After leaving, he watched a brief martial arena match before heading back to Fulilai Inn, while the shopkeeper reported the artifact to the pavilion’s main family.

• Chen Fei passed Green Rain Tower without entering and went to Thousand Treasures Pavilion to sell the Zhenyuan Mirror.
• The shopkeeper appraised the mirror and offered 1,900 primordial stones for a direct purchase or a consignment fee of half a percent.
• Chen Fei chose consignment, accepting that the sale could take three to ten days, and gave Fulilai Inn as his address.
• At the shop entrance, Chen Fei watched two Early Stage Aperture Refining Realm cultivators fight in a protected martial arena before returning to Fulilai Inn.
• The shopkeeper reported the high-grade spiritual artifact to Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s main family and decided against attempting to rob Chen Fei.

Ning Pusheng captured talented cultivators for True Lord Tianyang’s technique, while Chen Fei strengthened his cultivation and sold the Zhenyuan Mirror. After returning to his inn, Chen Fei encountered an unfamiliar Sword Cultivator of Tianyang Mansion.

• Ning Pusheng told Tantai Ting that the captives would help True Lord Tianyang cultivate a technique, while concealing the agonizing consequences of having their talent extracted.
• Chen Fei bought cultivation pills, returned to Fulilai Inn, and advanced his techniques and cultivation until he had opened eighty-five acupoints.
• Chen Fei sold the Zhenyuan Mirror through the Thousand Treasures Pavilion for two thousand three hundred and thirty elemental stones.
• A waiter led Chen Fei to meet an unfamiliar early-stage Aperture Refining Realm Sword Cultivator of Tianyang Mansion at the inn.

Chen Fei received a suspicious invitation to hear True Lord Tianyang lecture, while Tianyang Mansion secretly assessed his age and talent and began watching him. As the Spirit Tide approached, Chen Fei continued cultivating, raising his Spiritual Power and acupoints and advancing the Thousand Silk Art to its ninth layer.

• Chen Fei accepted a jade slip from Shen Zhengsu inviting him to attend True Lord Tianyang’s lecture after the Spirit Tide, but decided not to get involved.
• Shen Zhengsu reported to Tao Shiye that Chen Mu was young and talented, and Tao Shiye ordered people to watch him.
• Chen Fei spent more than ten days cultivating at Fulilai Inn while the imperial city grew crowded with visitors and martial arena contestants.
• Chen Fei entered the Heart Anomaly Realm and killed several second-tier Heart Anomalies, increasing his Spiritual Power from eighty-eight points to ninety-three.
• Chen Fei raised his acupoints from eighty-five to ninety and completed the eighth layer of the Thousand Silk Art, reaching its ninth layer.

Chen Fei used the Spirit Tide and the Heart Anomaly Origin to advance the Water Jade Sword to Great Perfection and the Blade Slayer Sword to Perfection, then left the imperial city. On the road, Sheng Renyuan tried to draw Chen Fei into his pursuit by Tao Shiye, who mistook him for Chen Mu.

• The Spirit Tide reached the imperial city, and Chen Fei discovered the Heart Anomaly Origin was drawing in spiritual essence and sharpening his comprehension.
• Chen Fei practiced and comprehended through the Spirit Tide, advancing the Water Jade Sword to Great Perfection and the Blade Slayer Sword to Perfection.
• Chen Fei left Fulilai Inn two days later and departed the imperial city, leaving Tianyang Mansion's jade slip behind.
• Chen Fei heard fighting on the road and tried to avoid it, but Sheng Renyuan shouted for help while fleeing Tao Shiye.
• Sheng Renyuan accelerated and charged toward Chen Fei to drag him into the pursuit, while Tao Shiye pursued and mistook Chen Fei for Chen Mu.

Chen Fei tried to leave Tao Shiye after turning Sheng Renyuan over to him, but Tao Shiye pursued him and forced a fight. Chen Fei proved stronger than Tao Shiye, though their battle was interrupted when Tao Shiye's friend Tong Wenxuan arrived.

• Sheng Renyuan tried to use Chen Fei to delay Tao Shiye, but Chen Fei struck him down and sent him flying toward Tao Shiye.
• Tao Shiye sealed Sheng Renyuan's cultivation, then pursued Chen Fei despite Chen Fei saying he wanted no involvement.
• Chen Fei hid in a forest and ambushed Tao Shiye, but Tao Shiye unleashed the Heavenly Sun Sword and met Chen Fei's attack.
• Chen Fei's sword strike overwhelmed Tao Shiye, who fled, but Chen Fei stopped him with God Slaying Swords and trapped him in the Heavy Origin Sword Array.
• Chen Fei broke through Tao Shiye's defenses and wounded him with repeated sword strikes until Tong Wenxuan arrived and Tao Shiye called for help.

Chen Fei used an enhanced Blood Burning Art to overpower and kill Tao Shiye, then erased his aura and fled as Tianyang Mansion’s martial artists arrived. Ning Pusheng brought out the Sky Searching Mirror to search for the killer, while Chen Fei’s clone disappeared without revealing his identity.

• Chen Fei sent his clone to block Tong Wenxuan and used his enhanced Blood Burning Art to force Tao Shiye to shatter his Acupoints.
• Chen Fei defeated Tao Shiye’s empowered attack, stopped him from escaping, and killed him despite his pleas for mercy.
• Chen Fei destroyed Tao Shiye’s revenge blood mark with the God Slaying Sword, erased his aura, collected Tao Shiye’s belongings, and fled.
• Tong Wenxuan saw the bloodlight signal and realized Tao Shiye had been killed, while Chen Fei’s clone dissipated nearby.
• Tianyang Mansion’s martial artists found the scene, and Ning Pusheng failed to detect the killer’s aura before ordering the Sky Searching Mirror brought to him.

Ning Pusheng used the Sky Searching Mirror to follow a faint aura to Sheng Renyuan, then realized Chen Fei had misled Tianyang Mansion and escaped. Chen Fei traveled to Linshui City, learned the Ruan Family had moved to Beimo City, and reached the place marked on Ruan Qiaojun’s map, where Yu Shijin and Yu Yuqi were besieged by spider demon beasts.

• Ning Pusheng forced the Sky Searching Mirror to reveal a faint aura and followed it toward the imperial capital.
• Ning Pusheng found Sheng Renyuan, learned Chen Fei had been pursuing the same person Tao Shiye chased, and kicked Sheng Renyuan unconscious after realizing the trail was useless.
• Chen Fei reflected that the Sword Eye had concealed his aura and that the Qian Yuan Sword was nearing a breakthrough into a High-grade Spirit Artifact.
• Chen Fei visited the abandoned Ruan Family courtyard in Linshui City and found Ruan Qiaojun’s letter saying the family had moved to Beimo City.
• Chen Fei traveled to the location marked on Ruan Qiaojun’s map and found Yu Shijin and Yu Yuqi surrounded by spider demon beasts.

Chen Fei found only a depleted Origin Stone vein beneath the spider nest, then discovered Mi Village had vanished and prepared to attack the strengthened strange entity in Pingyin County. When the entity struck at him, he was suddenly back in a memory of the ruined temple, where he killed Qi Chun and stabbed the shadow on the wall.

• Chen Fei's clone discovered the Spider Queen's nest and a nearly exhausted Origin Stone vein, while his true body left the Yu siblings to escape with their treasures.
• Chen Fei went to Mi Village's former site and used the Sword Eye to search the basin, but he could not trace the village's disappearance.
• Chen Fei reached Pingyin County, recognized that its strange entity had grown stronger, and prepared to attack it from a distance with his Electromagnetic Cannon.
• The strange entity's attack coincided with Chen Fei finding himself in the ruined temple from his past, roasting a rabbit with Qi Chun and the other Medical Hall attendants.
• Chen Fei killed Qi Chun as he had before, then drove his firewood cleaver into the shadow moving on the temple wall.

Chen Fei tore through the illusion created by Pingyin County’s eerie creature, destroyed a fragment of its origin, and used the connection to locate and strike its true body. After the creature’s aura vanished, Chen Fei examined the crystal left in the pit and cautiously infused it with Yuan Power.

• Chen Fei entered the Black Mist behind the wall and found himself in an illusion of Pingyin County, where he quickly saw through the eerie creature’s attempt to cloud his mind.
• Chen Fei activated Star Gazing Art and Sword Eye, searched the county, and found the eerie creature’s Illusion Origin inside a stone lion before shattering it with sword light.
• Back in reality, Chen Fei used the origin’s connection to locate the creature’s true body and pierced Pingyin County with an Electromagnetic Cannon arrow, severely weakening it.
• Chen Fei fired again and destroyed the eerie creature as several cultivators watching from miles away decided to leave rather than risk approaching him.
• Chen Fei found an amber-like crystal in the pit where the eerie creature had died and carefully injected Yuan Power into it.

Chen Fei discovered that the crystal contained a fragment of the Dream Entering Art, then learned that Jian Jinsheng had reached Mid Joint Aperture Realm Spiritual Power. Realizing the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect and its allies were in danger, Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect to report the threat.

• Chen Fei activated the crystal with Spiritual Power in the Heart Anomaly Realm and received information identifying it as a piece of a Dream Eater’s body containing the incomplete Dream Entering Art.
• Chen Fei decided to cultivate the fragment and searched the Heart Anomaly Realm, where he killed a second-order heart anomaly and sensed a distant battle.
• Chen Fei used the Star Gazing Art to identify Jian Jinsheng fighting a third-order heart anomaly and discovered that Jian Jinsheng’s Spiritual Power had reached Mid Joint Aperture Realm.
• Jian Jinsheng sensed Chen Fei spying and sent a sword strike toward him, but Chen Fei severed his aura with the Spirit Slaughter Technique and escaped the Heart Anomaly Realm.
• Chen Fei concluded that Jian Jinsheng’s growth threatened the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect and the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, then hurried back to report the danger.

Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect after destroying Sword Return Tower and warned Qu Qingsheng that Jian Jinsheng’s Spiritual Power had reached Mid Joint Aperture Realm. Facing the Divine Flame Sect’s growing threat, Tong Zhongqiu arranged for the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect, the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, and Sinking Water Pavilion to relocate with the Yu Family to the Endless Sea, while Chen Fei asked Chi Defeng and his wife whether they would come too.

• Chen Fei told Qu Qingsheng that Sword Return Tower had been destroyed and that Jian Jinsheng’s Spiritual Power had likely reached Mid Joint Aperture Realm.
• Qu Qingsheng alerted the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect, and Tong Zhongqiu fought Jian Jinsheng before confirming that he could reach Mid Joint Aperture Realm within a few years.
• Tong Zhongqiu tried to recruit the Yu Family, then proposed that the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect relocate to the Endless Sea in alliance with them.
• The Immortal Cloud Sword Sect arranged for the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and Sinking Water Pavilion to relocate with it, and Xianyun City grew unsettled as the preparations spread.
• Chen Fei asked Chi Defeng and his wife whether they would accompany them to the Endless Sea.

Chen Fei prepared to lead his friends and the Yuan Chen Sword Sect toward the Endless Sea as the sects gathered to leave Xianyun City. The chapter ended with the migration procession passing through a forcibly opened secret realm toward Half-Bottle Mountain and the Ghost City.

• Chen Fei asked Chi Defeng and Lan Yunzhi to go to the Endless Sea, and they agreed to leave with him.
• Si Yuanhai accepted Chen Fei's offer so his granddaughter, Si Yinan, could pursue a better future.
• The Immortal Cloud Sword Sect stripped and packed its resources while the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and Sinking Water Pavilion prepared to migrate as well.
• After half a month of preparations, the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect began to depart, while Jian Jinsheng watched its mountain gate without attacking.
• Tong Zhongqiu and Yu Shoucheng forced open the Yu Family's new Second Order Secret Realm, and the migration procession headed toward Half-Bottle Mountain with Chen Fei guarding the Yuan Chen Sword Sect.

Chen Fei and the others passed through Ghost City on their way to the Endless Sea, while Chen Fei used an avatar to settle an old score with a shopkeeper and claim a Tian Hun Stone. The group continued through the city under the protection of Tong Zhongqiu and Yu Shoucheng.

• Feng Xiupu questioned Chen Fei about his progress in Heaven Escaping Movement and asked him cultivation questions.
• Tong Zhongqiu and Yu Shoucheng suppressed Ghost City and opened a protected passage for the gathered sects and families to enter.
• As the group crossed Ghost City, Chen Fei sent his avatar into a shop to buy a Tian Hun Stone from the shopkeeper.
• Chen Fei used the Dream Entering Art to make the shopkeeper accept illusory copper coins, then left with the Tian Hun Stone.

Chen Fei and the others passed through the Ghost City and returned to the Endless Sea, where they found the World Vital Energy far richer than in Xianyun City. They sheltered on an island during a storm while Tong Zhongqiu and Yu Shoucheng blocked the passage to delay Jian Jinsheng as the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect prepared to establish itself in the Thousand Feathers Alliance.

• Chen Fei followed the group through the Ghost City, observed the ghost soldiers, and crossed the gates with Feng Xiupu and the others.
• Chen Fei emerged beside the Endless Sea and sensed that its World Vital Energy was denser and more lively than Xianyun City's.
• Yu Shoucheng welcomed Tong Zhongqiu to the Endless Sea and said the Thousand Feathers Alliance had even richer World Vital Energy.
• The group descended the cliff and sought shelter from the fierce storm, which the Yu Family expected to last no more than three days.
• Tong Zhongqiu and Yu Shoucheng worked together to block the passage temporarily, hoping to delay Jian Jinsheng while the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect established itself in the Thousand Feathers Alliance.

Chen Fei and the Yuan Chen Sword Sect chose to join the Thousand Feathers Alliance independently rather than merge into the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect. After settling in the Endless Sea and adapting to their new home, Chen Fei advanced his sword inheritance and increased his Acupoints to one hundred and six.

• Qu Qingsheng asked whether the Yuan Chen Sword Sect should follow the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect, but Zhou Zixun and Chen Fei supported joining the Thousand Feathers Alliance independently.
• After the storm eased, the group sailed to the Yu Family's island, and Qu Qingsheng informed the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect of their decision.
• The Yuan Chen Sword Sect and the Sinking Water Pavilion settled together on a resource-poor island so they could support each other.
• Over half a year, three people from the two sects broke through to the Aperture Refining Realm, while Ge Hongjie and several others failed their attempts.
• Chen Fei perfected the Blade Slayer Sword's sixth inheritance and raised his Acupoints to one hundred and six.

Chen Fei weighed how to reach the Peak Aperture Refining Realm despite the damaged Yuan Chen Sword Body, knowing that forcing open his last two acupoints could weaken his foundation. He decided to visit Haiyan City’s Enlightenment Pagoda to try completing the cultivation method, then left the Yuan Chen Sword Sect.

• Chen Fei assessed his strength after the Qian Yuan Sword became a High-grade Spirit Sword and considered the risks of advancing with an incomplete cultivation method.
• Zhang Fangqiong sensed Chen Fei’s growing power and reflected on how far he had risen since their first meeting.
• Chen Fei weighed forcing open his final two acupoints against spending years completing the Yuan Chen Sword Body, with Dragon Subduing Elephant as a possible aid to his future breakthrough.
• Chen Fei decided to seek help from the Enlightenment Pagoda, a spirit treasure offspring in Haiyan City that could help him comprehend cultivation methods.
• Chen Fei informed Qu Qingsheng of his plan, left the mountain gate, and headed for Haiyan City after looking back at the growing settlement on the sea island.

Chen Fei reached Haiyan City and entered the Enlightenment Pagoda, where he tested how far he could climb and still comprehend his cultivation art. He left the seventh floor for the eighth, surprising Yan Zesong as he went.

• Chen Fei entered Haiyan City and hired Mi Xian to guide him to the Enlightenment Pagoda.
• Mi Xian told Chen Fei that her younger brother had trained at Flying Cloud Martial Hall for six years and had reached the Muscle Tempering Realm; Chen Fei said she could have reached the Bone Forging Realm in that time.
• Chen Fei paid fifty Low-grade Spirit Stones to enter the Enlightenment Pagoda, despite the Steward Disciple warning him about its growing pressure.
• Chen Fei climbed from the first floor to the seventh, where he encountered Yan Zesong, a Peak Aperture Refining Realm expert.
• Chen Fei deduced the Yuan Chen Sword Body on the seventh floor, then rose and headed for the eighth, drawing Yan Zesong's attention.

Chen Fei endured the Enlightenment Pagoda’s eighth-floor pressure and used its heightened power to make rapid progress deducing the missing portions of the Yuan Chen Sword Body. Yan Zesong discovered him there and was stunned that a late Aperture Refining Realm cultivator could remain on the eighth floor.

• Chen Fei adapted to the eighth floor’s pressure and began deducing the Yuan Chen Sword Body, finding that the pagoda sparked ideas far more effectively than his previous efforts.
• Chen Fei recalled that the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect had denied possessing any more of the Yuan Chen Sword Body, and set aside the matter as he focused on his progress.
• Yan Zesong noticed that the Enlightenment Pagoda’s power was weakening and suspected that someone on the eighth floor was drawing on it.
• Yan Zesong went upstairs and found Chen Fei sitting calmly at the center of the eighth floor.
• Yan Zesong returned to the seventh floor, suspecting that Chen Fei relied on a powerful spirit artifact, while cultivators on the other floors also noticed the diminished power.